LIBYAN RESISTANCE: Libya News Col Gaddafi fires scud missile at rebel territory as Nato braces itself for final violent showdown!

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By Damien McElroy, Zintan, Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent, telegraph.co.uk / 9:00PM BST 15 Aug 2011.

The rebels were attempting to identify the trajectory of the missile which was fired from Col Gaddafi's stronghold of Sirte even as his envoys headed for new talks with the opposition and a United Nations special envoy in Tunisia.

Despite rumours that he is preparing to flee, the opposition fear Col Gaddafi is preparing a desperate last stand in Tripoli and towns still loyal to him in the face of recent rebel advances on two fronts which has cut off his crucial supply routes.

In the early hours of Monday morning, the defiant Libyan leader addressed his people, calling on them to take up arms and "defend their fatherland" and predicting a swift end for "the rats" and the "coloniser" - the rebels and NATO.

But in a further sign of his weakening position, his deputy interior minister, said to be a long-time devoted loyalist, then apparently defected. Nasser al-Mabrouk Abdullah arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo with nine members of his family claiming he was taking a holiday.

The launch of the ballistic Scud missile, which has a range of more than 200 miles, was detected by a US Aegis destroyer in the Mediterranean on Sunday, officials told The Daily Telegraph.

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NATO helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. troops!

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By Michelle Nichols | Reuters – 58 mins ago.

KABUL (Reuters) - A NATO helicopter crashed in central Afghanistan overnight killing 31 U.S. soldiers and 7 Afghan troops, the Afghan president said on Saturday, a devastating death toll and easily the worst single incident for foreign troops in 10 years of war.

A brief statement from the presidential palace said the helicopter had crashed in central Maidan Wardak province, just to the west of the capital, Kabul, and identified the Americans as special forces troops.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai "shared his deep sorrow and sadness" with U.S. counterpart Barack Obama and the families of the U.S. and Afghan victims, the statement said.

The Taliban claimed to have shot down the troop-carrying Chinook helicopter during a firefight and killed 38 soldiers. The Islamist group also said in a statement that eight insurgents had been killed in torrid fighting.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed a helicopter had crashed but gave no further details.

The high casualties come only two weeks after the start of a gradual process of handing security responsibility from foreign forces to Afghan troops and police, and at a time of growing unease about the increasingly unpopular and costly war.

That process is due to end with all foreign combat troops leaving Afghanistan by the end of 2014, but some U.S. lawmakers have already questioned whether that handover is fast enough.

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LIBYAN RESISTANCE: Libya rebels say NATO strike kills Gaddafi's Son!

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August 5, 2011 / AFP, Benghazi / DC.

Libya's rebel forces today said an overnight night NATO strike on an operations centre in the western town of Zliten has killed Muammar Gaddafi's son Khamis, and more than 30 others.

Citing spies operating among Gaddafi's ranks, Mohammed Zawawi, a spokesman for revolutionary militia groups, said that Khamis was confirmed to be among the dead.

"Overnight there was an aircraft attack by NATO on the Gaddafi operations room in Zliten and there are around 32 Gaddafi troops killed. One of them is Khamis," said Zawawi, a spokesman for the United Revolutionary Forces.

Khamis, who has long led pro-government militia fighters, was said to be commanding the battle for Zliten -- a Gaddafi bastion that has halted the rebel advance on Tripoli.

The strike appears to have come just hours after Tripoli took journalists on an escorted tour of the centre of Zliten, an effort to rubbish rebel claims the town was under attack.

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Kosovo tensions easing: NATO!

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AP / The Hindu / BRUSSELS, August 3, 2011.

A member of a Special Police Unit walks towards his place during the display of Kosovo's elite units. Photo: AP.

NATO says tensions in northern Kosovo are easing after 10 days of turmoil sparked by an attempt by the government’s security forces to seize control of border crossings with Serbia.

Officials said that NATO’s governing body was briefed on the situation on Wednesday, a day after the alliance announced it was deploying a reserve battalion from Germany to beef up its 6,000-strong force in Kosovo.

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CYBER CRIMES: Hackers claim to breach NATO security!

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Associated Press, NDTV / Updated: July 21, 2011 18:24 IST.

London:  A group of computer hackers claims to have breached NATO security and accessed hordes of restricted material.

The group called Anonymous says it would be "irresponsible" to publish most of the material it stole from NATO but that it is sitting on about one gigabyte of data.

Anonymous posted a PDF file on Thursday on its Twitter page showing what appeared to be a document headed "NATO Restricted."

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Libya crisis: Leaving Misrata as 'storm' approaches!

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Andrew Harding / Africa correspondent  / 2 July 2011 Last updated at 15:27 GMT / BBC.

Last night I sat on the roof and watched Misrata city - blackened by a power cut - glow orange as another barrage of rockets smashed into the port area.

"The storm is coming," one rebel military official assured me. "Our storm," he added.

But this morning the rebel casualties were pouring, as usual, into a field hospital just behind the western front lines as Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces nudged closer.

As the deadlock here continues, and the summer heat rises, I'm heading back to my base in Johannesburg. The only way to get out of this famously besieged city is still by boat, and there haven't been too many of them coming or going in recent days.

Below is something I've written for From Our Own Correspondent and, although it contains some material that has appeared before on this blog, I thought I'd include it by way of a parting message from this remarkable city.

I'm crouching behind a ridge of sand on the long, meandering, front line west of Misrata.

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Libyan Crisis: Libya says NATO airstrike killed 9 civilians!

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• June 20, 2011 
• AP 
• Libya | Tripoli / DC.

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Rebel fighters stand by as they fire a Grad rocket towards government forces at the front line west of Misrata, Libya - AP.

Libya's government said NATO warplanes struck a residential neighborhood in the capital Sunday and killed nine civilians, including two children. Hours later, NATO confirmed one of its airstrikes went astray.
The incident gave supporters of Moammar Gadhafi's regime a new rallying point against the international intervention in Libya's civil war. The foreign minister called for a "global jihad" on the West in response.

Early Sunday morning, journalists based in the Libyan capital were rushed by government officials to the damaged building, which appeared to have been partly under construction. Reporters were later escorted back to the site, where children's toys, teacups and dust-covered mattresses could be seen amid the rubble.

In a statement issued late Sunday at Brussels headquarters, the trans-Atlantic alliance said airstrikes were launched against a military missile site in Tripoli, but "it appears that one weapon did not strike the intended target and that there may have been a weapons system failure which may have caused a number of civilian casualties."

"NATO regrets the loss of innocent civilian lives and takes great care in conducting strikes against a regime determined to use violence against its own citizens," said Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard, commander of the anti-Libya operation.

Foreign Minister Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi told reporters nine civilians, including two children, were killed in the explosion and said 18 people were wounded. He said the strike was a "deliberate attack on a civilian neighborhood," and follows other alleged targeting of nonmilitary targets such as a hotel, an oxygen factory and civilian vehicles.

NATO cannot go on regretting the socalled inadvertent killings of civilians; Along with Muammar Gadaffi, NATO too must be prosecuted for 'War Crimes' in the UN Court.

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Libyan Crisis: Nato investigates claims of civilian deaths during Libyan raid!

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Nick Hopkins / June 2011 18.21 BST / Guardian.

Pictures – shown to the media on a guided tour by the Libyan government – of a residential neighbourhood in Tripoli, where civilians were reported to have died during a Nato raid. Photograph: Mohamed Messara / EPA.

Libyan government claims Nato missile struck house in residential Tripoli, killing civilians, including two children.

Nato is urgently reviewing the details of its weekend bombing missions after the Libyan government claimed one of its missiles had struck a house in a residential area of Tripoli, killing a number of civilians, including two children.

If confirmed, the attack would be the biggest blunder by coalition forces during the four-month campaign, and a PR gift for Muammar Gaddafi at a time when Nato has been trying to increase the tempo of military operations against the Libyan leader.

However, Nato officials were by no means sure it had been responsible for the alleged bombing in the Souk al-Juma district of the Libyan capital – the area was not being specifically targeted and the coalition has nobody on the ground to verify what the Gaddafi regime has been saying.

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Libyan Crisis: Pro-Gadhafi Forces Hit Misrata, NATO Targets Tripoli!

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June 17, 2011 / VOA News.

Smoke is seen after coalition air strikes in Tripoli, June 17, 2011 / Photo: Reuters.

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi are pounding targets in the western rebel stronghold of Misrata. 

Medical authorities and rebels say the shelling on Friday had killed at least 10 people and left 40 wounded. 

The attack by pro-Gadhafi forces come as NATO warplanes continue strikes over the capital, Tripoli. 

The forces appear to be targeting several parts of the capital, but it was not immediately clear what was hit or whether there are casualties. 

NATO has most often struck under the cover of darkness, but day-time assaults have become more common. Friday's raids followed a barrage on Thursday night.

Gadaffi is a desert rat, he should be ferret-outed from the desert to defeat him!

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Libyan Crisis: NATO unleashes blistering airstrikes in Libya!

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• June 8, 2011 
• AP via PTI 
• Tripoli / Deccan Chronicle.

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• Muammar Gaddafi stood defiant in the face of the heaviest and most punishing NATO airstrikes yet at least 40 thunderous daylight attacks that sent plumes of smoke billowing above the Libyan leader's central Tripoli compound.

• The strikes, which hit yesterday afternoon, continued overnight. Early today, some 10 explosions shook the Libyan capital.
  It was not immediately clear what was hit. Late yesterday, Libyan state television broadcast an audio address from Gadhafi, who denounced NATO and the rebels challenging his rule. He vowed never to surrender. "We will not kneel!" he shouted.
  It doesn't appear NATO is showing any restraint in avoiding the civilian targets!  Obviously the passenger-cars cannot be the military vehicle?

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Libyan Resistance: Gaddafi vows 'we will not surrender' as Nato bombs his compound!

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By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent, and Ruth Sherlock in Misurata

6:11PM BST 07 Jun 2011 / The Telegraph.

Col. Gaddafi gave a prompt and dramatic response to the heaviest raids on his capital yet, a clear attempt by NATO to bomb him out of power.

Col Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli in March  Photo: REUTERS.

"We have only one choice: we will stay in our land dead or alive," the Libyan leader said in a radio broadcast made in immediate response to a wave of attacks by low-flying jets on Tripoli.

According to one count, 27 heavy blasts were heard from the centre of the city during the day. Libyan officials confirmed that both Bab al-Azizia, the Gaddafi regime's residence and office compound, and the neighbouring Compound 77, home to a militia brigade and used as a vehicle storage facility, were repeatedly hit.

Yes, he wouldn't till he is literally dragged down by his own people.

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Libyan Crisis: U.K, French Helicopters Strike Libyan Targets!

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By JOE PARKINSON in Tripoli, Libya and ALISTAIR MACDONALD in London

A member of the French military prepares a attack helicopter for its first military operation in Libya.

U.K. and French helicopters were used for the first time over Libya on Saturday to attack the forces of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, as part of an increase in pressure from North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces, while more than 10 powerful explosions echoed across Tripoli several hours later.

The deployment of attack helicopters, confirmed by NATO and U.K. spokesman, marks a step up in the alliance's operations and a boost to the Libyan opposition two days after NATO said it would extend its mission another 90 days.

Early on Saturday, the helicopters hit targets including military vehicles, equipment and government forces, NATO said. British helicopters hit a radar installation and a military checkpoint, located around Brega, a spokesman from the U.K. Ministry of Defense said.

Hope the attacks were focussed, preventing any civilian causalities.

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